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STEM GINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stem ginger mean? 

STEM GINGER (noun)
  The noun STEM GINGER has 1 sense:

1. tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered gingerplay

  Familiarity information: STEM GINGER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STEM GINGER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Canton ginger; common ginger; stem ginger; Zingiber officinale

Hypernyms ("stem ginger" is a kind of...):

ginger (perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems)

Meronyms (parts of "stem ginger"):

ginger; gingerroot (pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery)


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